Margaret+Barnts


 * SUMMARY: Margaret Barnts, age 27, died May 8, 1928 after an abortion perpetrated in Chicago, evidently by Pauline Ziekerman, whose profession is not listed in the Homicide in Chicago Interactive Database.**

On May 8, 1928, 27-year-old Margaret Barnts died from a criminal abortion performed by Pauline Zickerman or Nickelman. (The name is given two different ways in the source, perhaps due to illegible handwriting on their original source documents.) The defendant was indicted for felony murder on May 15, 1928. Her profession is not mentioned.

Keep in mind that things that things we take for granted, like antibiotics and blood banks, were still in the future. For more about abortion in this era, see [|Abortion in the 1920s].

For more on pre-legalization abortion, see [|The Bad Old Days of Abortion].

Source:
 * [|Homicide in Chicago Interactive]

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